While this season’s “Restaurant Wars” seemed a bit anemic, there were still some excellent dishes. Dan’s winning smoked walleye, Dan’s carrot-centric take on clam chowder, Savannah’s chawanmushi, ...

Q: After your recent column about cooking dried beans, I have another tip to add. I cook a lot of beans and learned a few years ago to add a strip of kombu to the pot with the beans. I generally do ...

Glutamates naturally found in food deliver a big punch of umami, a sense of savoriness often called the “fifth taste.” Seaweed is loaded with glutamate – indeed it was from a seaweed, from kombu, that ...

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While this season’s “Restaurant Wars” seemed a bit anemic, there were still some excellent dishes. Dan’s winning smoked walleye, Dan’s carrot-centric take on clam chowder, Savannah’s chawanmushi, ...